[AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes / barnyard repair
charlie hill
chill8 at cox.net
Wed Aug 30 07:03:46 PDT 2006
Yep I have a boot inside one rear tire on one of my D14's now. Ran over a
trailer tongue with the ball release lever standing up. Doing a favor for a
friend. Cost me $65 and ruined a very good tire. I need to go back and
lace the edges but as long as it's holding air I won't worry about it.
Charlie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas O. Mehrkam" <tomehrkam at houston.rr.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes / barnyard repair
>I have done that after running over some sharp stumps. You make a boot out
>of an old tire and bolt it inside the tractor tire. It lasts a long time.
>
> charlie hill wrote:
>> When I was a small boy my dad was still running his service station and
>> had a tennant farmer family doing the farming. They had an early model
>> Allis B that they called Allis Mae. She had a cut about, as I remember,
>> 8 to 10 inches long between two of the lugs on the tire and running at
>> about the same angle as the lugs. They had gone inside the tire and
>> bolted another piece of rubber under the cut with carriage bolts with the
>> heads inside the tire. They were small carriage bolts, maybe 1/4" or
>> slightly larger and they were on about 1" centers all the way around the
>> cut and about 1" or so out from it.
>> Then they had laced the edges of the cut together with a couple of
>> strands of bailing wire the same way you would lace your shoes. As far
>> as I know that tire was still on old Allis Mae when she left the farm
>> after my dad sold the station and took up the farming.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "kgw" <gwaugh at wowway.com>
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>> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 5:44 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes / barnyard repair
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>>
>>> I agree, unique "farmer" repairs are some of the most interesting, and
>>> deserve to be retained!
>>>
>>> GeneW
>>>
>>> Snelling, Wayne K wrote:
>>>
>>>> I enjoy seeing those inventions of necessity and many came from the
>>>> depression era. I have a later one on a SM Farmall. The tire split tire
>>>> is bolted together with 1/4 inch bolts that keep the patch in place on
>>>> the inside. I think the SM will stay in that repair. It does need an
>>>> lpg
>>>> tank as the one on it leaks but I have found an exact manufacture/date
>>>> replacement and will change that out. But otherwise it will stay in
>>>> it's
>>>> "repaired" state
>>>>
>>>> Wayne Snelling
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Computer Information Systems
>>>> South Plains College
>>>> Lubbock, TX 806-747-0576 ex 4692
>>>>
>>>>
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